Benefits Dispute Leads To Pipeline Construction Walk-off

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

January 4, 2012 | 1:02 PM

A couple hundred union workers are walking off their pipeline construction jobs in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, due to a contract dispute.
More from the Charleston Gazette:

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 700 Teamster pipeline construction workers are walking off their jobs after negotiations broke down with the Pipe Line Contractors Association over proposals to change their retirement programs.
That total will include about 200 workers in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, according to Galen Munroe, a Teamsters spokesman from Washington, D.C. Their contract expired on Dec. 31.
Most of those local workers have jobs related to drilling and transporting pipelines to Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale natural gas reserve drilling sites.